Apart from the sun, the
moon is the most recognisable object in the sky. The sun is often taken
for granted but the moon has always been seen as an object of great beauty
and mystery. Very few people are not moved by the moon in the night sky
- particularly a full moon.

The moon in a Natal chart
represents the emotions and instinctual responses. It shows how a person
responds in emotional situations. It is also strongly connected to the
mind and memory functions.

It is also the primary
indicator of home, the early homelife and any changes to the home situation
during our lives are all shown up by varoius aspects of the moon.

It rules infancy and early
childhood and is the face of a child that you will see most often during
the early years.

Emotions are associated with
the element water; the moon is also associated with water. As it waxes
and wanes during its cycle, we see the obvious effects on the tides, so
it also affects all living things.

The moon is instinctive, it
is intuitive and empathetic, and it is aware of the fluctuating emotional
environment and responds to it.

It shows what is required
for emotional security and how we obtain it.

Astrologically the moon represents
everything on an inner level, our emotions, the things about ourselves
we tend to keep hidden. Things we donÃ­t shine out in full view the way
the solar self seeks to shine out in the world.

We generally reserve the moon
for people we trust, people we are on an intimate level with. However,
on a subconscious level we act very much from the moon, even if we are
not aware of doing so.

In the chart, the moon also
represents the mother, or more correctly our perception of the
mother.

The Moon also represents how
we need to be nurtured, what we look for, what we consider to be nurturing,
bearing in mind one persons idea of nurturing can be quite different from
another's. The type of love we received, or didnÃ­t receive, from our mother
in the early years has probably the greatest effect on our ability to
form relationships later in life.

As the prime representation
of mother, the moon becomes extremely important in understanding how we
love, both in the giving and receiving. Our mother is the first love we
experience and in psychology is considered to be the first 'great love'
of our lives. We learn from our mother, whether we are male or female,
what to expect when love comes into play. How this relationship plays
out has a dramatic and often unrecognised effect on the way our adult
relationships evolve. This is one of the reasons that even the ancients
placed such a high importance on the moon in the horoscope.

As babies, we are unaware that we are separate from the mother until around
the age of 6 months. At this same time we experience our first solar opposition.
This can be a very scary time for the child, and when many babies first
express clingininess. The realisation that we are a separate and a very
small part of the big world raises issues of our own mortality and dependence
upon others, particularly the mother. She has the power of life and death.
The moon shows what we meet through mother and the progressed aspects
in infancy become of extreme importance as they show what we meet in our
first experience of love.

It is very important to examine
closely the condition of the moon in the horoscope as this can tell you
more than any other single planet as to how the individual will relate
to the rest of the world and how they feel about themselves. Remembering
at this point, that aspects to the moon show us what we meet through the
mother and our experiences with her.

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